CHOREPISCOPUS is also the name of a dignity still subsisting in some cathedrals, particularly in Germany, and signifies the same with chori episcopus, or bishop or leader of the choir. The word, in this sense, does not come from χῶρος, place, but χορος, choir. In the church of Cologne, for instance, the first chanter is called chorepiscopus.
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